Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum
His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind ― Guardian
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. The English translation by Alfred Birnbaum was released in 1991.
A strange and dreamlike novel, its chapters alternate between two bizarre narratives—”Hard-Boiled Wonderland” (a cyberpunk-like, science fiction part) and “The End of the World” (a virtual fantasy-like, surreal part).
A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim.
Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami’s international following. Tracking one man’s descent into the Kafkaesque underworld of contemporary Tokyo, Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy.
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